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...slim, pretty, and not yet 20. She stood shyly in the living room of a house in Paris' Rue du Bois. Bear-like Composer Claude Debussy ambled in, sat down at a piano with his back to her. "You are Mlle. Teyte?" "Yes, sir." "You are Mlle. Teyte-of the Opéra-Comique?" "Yes, sir." "Eh bien, we will start here." Before they had run through the first act of his one & only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy hustled out to shout to his wife, "Here is a Mèlisande...
Call Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...afternoon last week, although it was a weekday, Paris looked like Kansas on Sunday. Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout...
Jouhaux and his four non-Communist lieutenants on the C.G.T.'s executive board submitted their resignations. Then they moved out of the C.G.T.'s, yellow limestone headquarters on the Rue La Fayette and the four lieutenants set up shop in a grey two-story building on the Rue Mademoiselle, flanked by a bakery and a barbershop. Jouhaux refused to take the top post. He may change his mind, but if he does not, the likeliest leader is small, dark, shy Robert Bothereau, 51, a metal worker and longtime Jouhaux follower...
Hollywood's most encouraging tendency was to move out of the studios to actual locales (notably in The Fugitive, Boomerang.', Kiss of Death, 13 Rue Madeleine), and to start handling at least reasonably live social issues (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement...